: How Ananda Lal translated Utpal Dutt’s 50-year-old political play ‘Barricade’ into English #IndiaNEWS Utpal Dutt’s play Barricade, translated into English by Ananda Lal for publication by Seagull

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How Ananda Lal translated Utpal Dutt’s 50-year-old political play ‘Barricade’ into English #IndiaNEWS
Utpal Dutt’s play Barricade, translated into English by Ananda Lal for publication by Seagull Books, is set in Germany. It looks at how the results in successive elections led to the Nazi takeover. The genesis of Barricade can be traced to the phase between 1968 and 1972, when Dutt wrote and directed 17 “jatra� – or folk theatre –​​ plays. Wanting to explore the theatre form, he formed the Vivek Jatra Samaj (for rural and suburban audiences), and People’s Little Theatre for the urban proscenium.PLT survived, and it was the immediate success of its production of Tiner Taloar (The Tin Sword) in 1971 that ensured a second run for Dutt. PLT went on to deliver many more hits, including Barricade (1972).Born in 1929 in Barishal (now in Bangladesh), Utpal Dutt began his tryst with theatre in college at St Xavier’s, Calcutta, playing in selected scenes from Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth and Richard III. In 1947, he found his guru, Geoffrey Kendal. His life with the strolling Kendals lasted “from August 1947 to the end of 1948, and again from February 1953 to the end of 1954�.Success came with Angar (Embers) in 1959 at Minerva (taken on a “long lease� in 1959), followed by Ferari Fouj (Runaway Troop), Titash and Kallol (which made a savage criticism of the...Read more

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